Rabu, 01 Januari 2014

Catching (radio) waves

In 2000, five MIT Media Lab alumni co-founded ThingMagic to help bring radio-frequency identification (RFID) technology — wireless readers and data-transmitting tags — to the supply chain. This meant companies would be able to track products, from the warehouse to delivery. This mission served as the technological spark that catapulted ThingMagic into a leading role in a new generation of RFID systems that were, among other things, cheaper, faster, and more efficient than similar technologies. At the time of ThingMagic’s founding, available RFID readers — which collect information...lainnya »